Kettle Falls High School - Review Yearbook (Kettle Falls, WA)

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January 7, 1923. The Baltimore Sun exposes the reign of terror of the Ku Klux Klan in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. where despite evidence of torture and murder of marked victims. a grand jury refused to bring an indictment. Estimated Klan membership is as high as 5 million: by 1930 it has declined to 9.000. August 2, 1923. Warren G. Harding dies mysteriously in San Francisco on his return from Alaska. Embolism is listed as the cause of death. Harding is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge. Keep Cool. May 4, 1924. Calvin Coolidge signs bill excluding all Japanese immigration and limiting immigration from other countries. July 10-21, 1925. John Scopes, a Tennessee schoolteacher, is tried and convicted for teaching evolution in public school. Prosecutor is William Jennings Bryan and defense attorney is Clarence Darrow. 1926. Ramon Navarro stars in Ben Hur: John Barrymore appears as Don Juan: Rudolph Valentino dies. November 12, 1926. First aerial bombardment on United States soil. During a feud between rival bootleggers, an airplane drops three bombs on the farmhouse of Charles Birger in Williamson County, Illinois. The bombs fail to explode. 1927. The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson is the first popular sound film. Summer, 1927. Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. 1925. The New Yorker begins publication. 1925. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is published by Scribner and Sons. American Fab Fwy August 2, 1927. Calvin Coolidge tells the press in Rapid City, South Dakota, 1 do not choose to run for President in 1928. The Uncle Sam Chronicles August 23, 1927. Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed. 1928. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in theatres. January 1, 1928. An air-conditioned office building opens in San Antonio, Texas. June 26, 1928. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic governor of New York, becomes the first Catholic presidential nominee. October 14, 1928. Cora Dennison and James Fowlkes of Kansas City, Missouri are married on television. 1929. William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury: Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms: Thomas Wolfe publishes Look Homeward Angel. January 13, 1929. The first talking picture in Esperanto is made by Paramount. September 5, 1929. The first-fly-it yourself airplane service is begun. October 29, 1929. Stock Market crashes. 155- l '-'rss 'WJ-. ,ur , F3 iiiQ9L,,..J 9

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The Uncle Sam Chronicles May 27, 1911. Hubert Humphrey born. 1912. Charles Pathe produces the first newsreel. 1912. The Girls Scouts and The Campfire Girls are chartered. 1912. Casimir Funck discovers vitamins. February 16, 1913. 16th amendment to the Constitution authorizes the income tax. January 9, 1913. Richard Nixon born. March 4, 1913. Woodrow Wilson inaugurated. October 1, 1913. A monument to a Seagull is dedicated in Salt Lake City. Utah. December 21, 1913. The first crossword puzzle appears in the New York World. August 15, 1914. Panama Canal opened. October 28, 1914. Jonas Salk born. February 2, 1917. Diplomatic relations are severed with Germany, April 6, 1917. Congress declares war on Germany. May 29, 1917. John Fitzgerald Kennedy born. 1918. The Yellow Light is introduced to New York City's traffic signals. The first yellow light is run by Hector Rondalla. a Bronx casketmaker. on his way to the World Series. January 8, 1918. Mississippi is the first state to ratify the prohibition amendment to the Constitution. November 7, 1918. Billy Graham born. November 11, 1918. Armistice of World War I signed. 1919. H.L. Mencken publishes The American Language. January 4, 1919. Teddy Roosevelt dies. September 2, 1919. Communist Party of America organized. December 11, 1919. A monument to a boll weevil is dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama. July 26, 1919. Emily Schaeffer of Sea Gate, New York marries Lt. George Burgess of the Army Air Corps in an airplane. The bride and groom arein one plane. the minister in another The ceremony is broadcast by radio to a grandstand below. It is not recorded whether the bride tosses her bouquet from the cockpit. January, 1920. Prohibition becomes effective. August 26, 1920. The Woman Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution becomes Law. December 10, 1920. Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Woodrow Wilson. 1922. Sinclair Lewis publishes Babbitt. January 24, 1922. C.K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie. July, 1922. The first tube neon advertising sign appears in New York. August 1, 1922. Alexander Graham Bell dies. 1923. Time magazine is published by Henry Luce. BLACK SWAN The All ime All

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